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KTVI

KTVI, branded Fox 2 St. Louis, is a Fox-affiliated television station on virtual channel 2 that signed on in 1953 and has been the St. Louis Fox affiliate since 1995.

KTVK

KTVK, also known as KTVK-TV, is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, launched in 1955 by Ernest W. McFarland and now owned by Gray Television.

KTX (tokamak)

KTX (Keda Torus for eXperiment; 科大一环) is a reversed field pinch fusion experiment at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Asia's largest, completed in 2015.

KTX-I

The KTX-I, also called KTX-1, is South Korea's first-generation high-speed train, a twenty-car TGV-derived trainset built by Alstom that entered service on April 1, 2004.

KTX-Sancheon

KTX-Sancheon is a South Korean high-speed train built by Hyundai Rotem with domestic Korean technology, the second high-speed fleet in KORAIL service, entering use in 2010.

Ku band

The Ku band is the 12 to 18 GHz portion of the microwave spectrum used for satellite communications, including direct-to-home television and LEO broadband constellations.

Ku Oil and Gas Field

Ku is an offshore heavy-oil field in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, discovered in 1979 and producing since 1981, operated by Pemex as one of the three main Ku-Maloob-Zaap fields.

Ku-Maloob-Zaap Oil Pipeline Network

The Ku-Maloob-Zaap Oil Pipeline Network is a crude oil pipeline network in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, owned by Pemex, with 42 pipelines totaling 189 km.

Kuaishou (快手科技)

Kuaishou Technology (快手科技) is a Beijing-based Chinese short-video, live-streaming and e-commerce company whose Kuaishou app rivals ByteDance's Douyin and whose Kling AI video model is a growing business.

Kuaizhou-1A

Kuaizhou-1A (快舟一号甲, KZ-1A) is a Chinese solid-propellant launch vehicle developed by ExPace, a subsidiary of CASIC, first flown in 2017 to carry small satellites to low Earth orbit.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), also known as Kuala Lumpur Airport, is Malaysia's main international airport, opened in 1998 in Sepang, Selangor, about 50 km from Kuala Lumpur.

Kuala Lumpur Sentral

Kuala Lumpur Sentral, formally Stesen Sentral Kuala Lumpur and commonly KL Sentral, is a transit-oriented development in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, whose main railway station opened in 2001.

Kuavo

Kuavo is a family of full-size humanoid robots developed by Leju Robotics, a Chinese company founded in Shenzhen in 2016; 577 units were sold in 2025.

KubeEdge

KubeEdge is an open source edge computing platform built on Kubernetes that extends container orchestration and device management to edge nodes. Open sourced by Huawei Cloud in 2018, it graduated from the CNCF in 2024.

Kubeflow

Kubeflow is an open source, Kubernetes-native platform of modular projects (Pipelines, Trainer, Katib, KServe) for data and AI workloads, started by Google in 2017 from TensorFlow Extended and graduated from CNCF in 2026.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source container-orchestration platform released by Google in 2014 that automates deploying, scaling, and healing containerized applications across machine clusters.

Kubota

Kubota Corporation (株式会社クボタ) is a Japanese manufacturer headquartered in Osaka. Founded in 1890, it makes agricultural machinery, engines, and water treatment systems, earning about 80 percent of its 3.20 trillion yen revenue overseas.

Kubotan

The Kubotan, also known as a pocket stick, is a short rod-shaped self-defense keychain weapon developed by martial artist Takayuki Kubota in the late 1960s.

Kubuntu

Kubuntu, a Linux distribution, is an officially recognized Ubuntu flavor that combines the Ubuntu base with the KDE Plasma desktop and KDE applications, releasing every six months.

KuCoin

KuCoin is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange founded in September 2017 and headquartered in the Seychelles, offering spot, futures, and margin trading plus its KuCoin Token (KCS).

Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India, built with Russian cooperation, has two operating VVER-1000 reactors and four more under construction, to reach 6,000 MW.

Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project

Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project is an NTPC Limited coal-fired power station at Kudgi village in Karnataka, India, with three 800 MW supercritical units commissioned between 2017 and 2018.

Kuehne + Nagel

Kuehne + Nagel, also known as Kuehne and Nagel, is a Swiss logistics company founded in Bremen in 1890 that leads global sea and air freight.

Kufic brick inscriptions

Kufic brick inscriptions are architectural inscriptions in angular Kufic script formed from brick units, which flourished especially in Seljuk-era Iran and adorned mosques and minarets with often turquoise-glazed lettering.

Kugelpanzer

The Kugelpanzer is a one-man spherical armored vehicle of disputed origin, the only known built World War II-era ball tank, displayed at the Kubinka Tank Museum near Moscow.

Kuhn Ridge Coal Mine

Kuhn Ridge Coal Mine is a surface coal mine near Rupert in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, operated by Greenbrier Smokeless Coal Mining LLC and currently listed as temporarily idled.

Kuibyshev-Lysychansk Oil Pipeline

The Kuibyshev-Lysychansk Oil Pipeline (Нефтепровод Куйбышев - Лисичанск) is a trunk oil pipeline running 1,111 km from Samara, Russia, to Lysychansk, Ukraine, commissioned in 1977 and operated by Transneft-Privolga.

Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk Oil Pipeline

The Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk Oil Pipeline is a trunk oil pipeline in Russia running from Samara to Tikhoretsk in Krasnodar Krai, feeding crude toward Novorossiysk and refineries in southern Russia.

KUKA

KUKA, also known as KUKA Robotics or KUKA AG, is a German automation and robotics corporation in Augsburg, founded in 1898 and owned by Midea Group since 2016.

KUKA KMR iiwa

The KUKA KMR iiwa is a mobile manipulator that pairs KUKA's sensitive LBR iiwa seven-axis collaborative arm with an omnidirectional, autonomously navigating mobile platform, introduced in 2015.